User Experience Design MSc

Gain the skills you need to improve a user’s journey through a product or service You will graduate with an online professional presence and a portfolio that displays your skills. Our User Experience Design MSc course will prepare you for a career as a usability engineer, user researcher, user experience designer or general "UX-er". To support delivery of this course, we created Digital Media Kingston. This collaboration between the School of Computing and Information Systems and the School of Design provides the multidisciplinary perspective needed to accommodate students with backgrounds in art and design, computer science and the humanities. This course includes the following features, intended to maintain academic standards and ease the transition from university study to commercial practice: project-based teaching and learning talks on principles and methods, and guided practical workshops support the development of UX practice in-class presentations and workshops, and discussions encouraging collaboration coursework topics tailored to development of your portfolio and destination balanced consideration of research, design, prototyping and evaluation in the context of project management a broad coverage of UX issues that covers mobile, desktop and other devices (Internet of Things) user performance and experiential criteria (from utility and efficiency to engagement, persuasion and brand perception) key topics of user journeys, design thinking, usability testing possibility of dovetailing study and work via externally hosted projects, placements and start-ups

English language requirements for User Experience Design MSc: Open English language requirement for this course: Academic IELTS of 6.5 overall, with no element below 6. If you do not meet our English language requirements, you may be eligible for Kingston University's pre-sessional English language course. Check out our English Language Programme for more details. If you’re applying from a recognised majority English-speaking country (MESC), you won’t need to meet the requirements. For further information on country-specific entry requirements, please explore our

International students: £20,000 per year

UK students: £11,900 per year

UK/Home: £11,900 per year

International: £20,000 per year

September 2026

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